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Freight And Unafraid
Rails laddered lateral
Parallel
Spans of measured meters - repeat
In ramparts undergirding - tracking dreams
And their iron accounts tell
They tell
Transient transcendences
In boxcar Bethels
Fancies followed by ferrous paramours
Of world
Of others - away
Of ventures vain
Or distant claim
Dens for vagrants bare of foot
Shod in denim and soot
Burrs on pant legs clinging
Swinging with the sway of savior trains
Wagers to wander bet on tracks
Wistful wonders seen keenly
Eyes alive with contravene
And I would double down
To sow my odds
Vaulting one crossing close
Embracing an engine's rich transpose
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Picture is Hemingway hopping a train (Wikipedia commons)
Published 30th Aug 2017
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30th Aug 2017 1:43pm
30th Aug 2017 1:57pm
This is a very special piece ... most people denigrate the hardships of those times by somehow romanticizing what it was to have to hop the rails as a vagrant. Families were broken in those times because of economic hardships. You've shown a lighter side without overselling it.
Bravo!
Bravo!
Thank you, I had hoped it wasn't too rosey, it's not the hipster utopia people sometimes believe it is/was. It's always been interesting though :)
